The birds of Great Britain.
John Gould (1804-1881)
Category
Books
Date
1873
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3147273
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v., plates . chiefly col. ill.. . fol (56 x 38 cm.). Sir John H. Crewe, [and] Lady Crewe, [both] Calke Abbey, near Derby, appear in list of subscribers. Provenance: Nineteenth-century large armorial bookplate (v.1): Calke Abbey library [associated with Sir George Crewe and his son, Sir John Harpur Crewe]. Binding: Nineteenth-century green morocco; elaborate gilt fillet and gilt oak leaf design tooling on borders and spine; all edges gilt; gilt lettered spine: Gould's Birds of Britain. Bookshoe (v.5).
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
John Gould (1804-1881) William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902) Joseph Wolf (1820 - 1899)